Re: draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 14:44, Don Armstrong wrote:

> The basic premise of the desert island test is that a license should
> not force an individual on a desert island to be in violation of the
> license merely because they cannot communicate with the world at
> large. See [2] and the thread that follows for much more information.

We spend enough time worrying about actual problems that worrying 
about hypotheticals like this is a waste of time.

IMHO, absent evidence of an actual desert island with incommunicado
developers, the desert island constraint you propose to apply here
fails the IETF's bedrock "running code" principle.

Given evidence of such developers, our energy would be better spent on 
removing barriers which prevent them from being connected to the Internet.

More importantly, both the "desert island" and the "dissident" tests presume
that the people enforcing the license are mindless automatons and would seek
to enforce it even when it would be unjust or destructive to the aims of the 
IETF to do so. 

					- Bill

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